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Notes: It is also possible to interpret τέλειος in RV EPH 4:13 · LV EPH 4:13 · Read together EPH 4:13 as meaning ‘perfect’ (see 88.36: τέλειος).|In RV MAT 5:48 · LV MAT 5:48 · Read together MAT 5:48 it is possible that τέλειος also means maturity of behavior, but it is usually interpreted as ‘being perfect,’ since the comparison is made with God (see 88.36: τέλειος).

CO1 2:6: RV CO1 2:6 · LV CO1 2:6 · Read together CO1 2:6

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6 However, when we’re with mature believers, we speak wisdom—not the wisdom of this age, and not the wisdom of the rulers of this age who will come to nothing.

OET-LV CO1 2:6

6 And wisdom we _are _speaking among the mature, but wisdom, not of_ the _age this, nor of _the the_rulers of_ the _age this, the ones being _nullified,

CO1 13:10: RV CO1 13:10 · LV CO1 13:10 · Read together CO1 13:10

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10 So when perfection comes, partial things will disappear.

OET-LV CO1 13:10

10 but whenever may _come the perfect, the thing by part will _be _being _nullified.

All 9 recorded passages for this sense

CO1: RV CO1 2:6 · RV CO1 13:10 · RV CO1 14:20 · LV CO1 2:6 · LV CO1 13:10 · LV CO1 14:20 · Read together CO1 2:6 · Read together CO1 13:10 · Read together CO1 14:20

EPH: RV EPH 4:13 · LV EPH 4:13 · Read together EPH 4:13

COL: RV COL 1:28 · RV COL 4:12 · LV COL 1:28 · LV COL 4:12 · Read together COL 1:28 · Read together COL 4:12

HEB: RV HEB 5:14 · LV HEB 5:14 · Read together HEB 5:14

JAM: RV JAM 1:4 · RV JAM 3:2 · LV JAM 1:4 · LV JAM 3:2 · Read together JAM 1:4 · Read together JAM 3:2

Sense 6: grown person, adult

Semantic entry: 9.10

Semantic domains: People

Subdomains: Human Beings

Definition: pertaining to an adult human being

Notes: Though in RV HEB 5:14 · LV HEB 5:14 · Read together HEB 5:14 τέλειος is to be understood in a literal sense, the context as a whole is figurative.

CO1 14:20: RV CO1 14:20 · LV CO1 14:20 · Read together CO1 14:20

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20 Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking. You all can be like infants with respect to evil, but in everything else, be mature in your thinking.

OET-LV CO1 14:20

20 Brothers, not little _children be _becoming in _your thinking, but in _the evil, be _child _like, and in _your thinking, mature be _becoming.

HEB 5:14: RV HEB 5:14 · LV HEB 5:14 · Read together HEB 5:14

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14 but mature people have solid food meaning that their senses have been trained and they can distinguish good from evil.

OET-LV HEB 5:14

14 But for_the_mature is the solid food, of _who because _of the practice their senses having _been _trained, having for distinction, of _good both and evil.

Sense 7: initiated

Semantic entry: 11.18

Semantic domains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes

Subdomains: Socio-Religious

Definition: one who is initiated into a religious community of faith (a meaning which reflects the occurrence of τέλειος as a technical term for persons initiated into the mystery religions)

Notes: In a number of languages ‘initiated’ (RV PHP 3:15 · RV COL 1:28 · LV PHP 3:15 · LV COL 1:28 · Read together PHP 3:15 · Read together COL 1:28) may be best expressed as ‘to become a member of’ or ‘to become a believer in.’ It is possible, however, to interpret τέλειος in RV PHP 3:15 · LV PHP 3:15 · Read together PHP 3:15 and RV COL 1:28 · LV COL 1:28 · Read together COL 1:28 as mature spirituality or a state of being spiritually mature (see 88.100: τέλειος).